May 13, 2011 2:30pm - 5:30pm, & May 14, 2011 9:30am-5:30pm

Examples across all religious traditions demonstrate that people have often imagined, understood and described their religious experiences in terms of physical sensation. However, our modern scholarly categories of analysis seem better equipped to handle conceptual, rather than corporeal discourses. As a result, the "tastes," "smells," "sounds," and "sights" of religious discussion and practice seem to be lost in the translation that constitutes the main work of scholarship in religious studies.

This conference aims to foster innovative approaches to the corporeal dimensions of religious discourse and practice.

All events will be held in the Stanford Humanities Center on May 13, 2011 from 2:30-5:30pm, and May 14, 2011 from 9:30am-5:30pm.

Defining the Body

Defining the Body: Performing Boundaries
May 14, 2011
9:30am-11:15am 

Joshua Swartz 
New York University
"Approaching Closeness: The Haptic Transformation in Buber's Dialogical Philosophy"

Diana Dukhanova 
Brown University
"The Flesh of the Matter: The Problem of the Body in the Correspondence of Vasily Rozanov and Father Pavel Florensky"

Ariela Marcus-Sells 
Stanford University
"See the Invisible Bodies! Etiquette Among the Unseen in a West African Manual of retreat"

Discussant: Professor Yuhan S.B. Vevaina
Department of Religious Studies
Stanford University
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